Flowers... 'Standing wave', borage、azalea, lilac, black-eyed susan, sumomo...

Note: Am dedicating this post to Malar, who had graciously nominated this humble blog for the 'Versatile Blogger Award'... 

Had been 'itching' for a while to post these flower pictures...

Some of them have been sitting in the hard-disk for many moons now...

This is a wild flower found in the surrounding hills... 

The scientific name is Scutellaria indica...

What a mouthful... again, prefer its Japanese name, タツナミソウ、literally, 'Standing wave' flower?

A member of the sage family...
I took back a specimen to plant it in our potager...

Borage is like, every where in our garden...
Not to say I am complaining...

In fact, I cannot get enough of their pretty flowers...

Mountain azaleas are also thriving in our garden...
They mainly come in colors of pink although some are whitish while others are somewhat orange...

The lilac never fails to bloom in early spring...
They are quite prolific, so to say...

And black eyed Susans... they have very much 'settled' down in a corner at our garden...
I actually prefer them to the sunflowers as cut flowers...

And finally, this series of pictures of flowers of our Japanese plum 'sumomo'...

We pruned this plant last autumn...

In spring, the blooms were plentiful...

And for reasons still unknown to us, the plant decided to die out on us...  sad...

Potager Y on a hot, humid summer's day...

Been really busy with work lately....

It is during times like this when I ask myself, 'now why didn't I choose to become a full time farmer?'...

I have full freedom to decide how I want to work, when I wish to work, and nobody (except my sweeto haaato of course) tells me what to do...

Hee hee hee, now wouldn't that be nice...

If only I have the courage to decide so... :)

Ok folks, you will all have to forgive me while I put up some 'not-so-nice' pictures...

I worked last Sunday, and I am taking today (Wednesday) off...

Had planned to shoot some pictures with the 'real' camera but unfortunately I left it at my office...

So, I am making do with a point and shoot camera for these pics...  

Well, my cute little plants are growing...

Cucumbers (the Japanese and the US types), jalapeno chillies, nasturtiums red and yellow, few types of tomatoes, zucchinis, pumpkins yellow and green, sweet corn, basil of the sweet and Thai types, dill, marigolds and zinnias aplenty, rows of coriander, Malabar spinach red and green, kangkong, long beans, wing beans, fuji beans, loofa Egyptian and angled, the long-slender-green-real bitter gourd, butter scotch pumpkin, green beans, sweet potatoes, the normal potatoes just about ready for harvesting, peanuts that are starting to flower, bell peppers, amaranth red and green, Korean shiso or Perilla aka Beefsteak plant, Japanese yams of the round and long type, mini watermelons, okra, chard... did I miss anything?

We obtained some Black-eyed Susan seeds from an elderly lady on one of our walks in the neighborhood...

Took us more than two years to get them to flower in our potager...

Harvested some onions some time ago...

Had been hanging them out in the shade to dry them for use during the rainy day...

The Japanese folks call these hydrangea beauties, 'Ajisai'...

Of the several types in our property, this is my favorite...

And the tiger lily....

When we are done with enjoying the flowers, it is time to harvest the edible root-bulbs...

That is, if the wild boars do not get to harvest them first...